A special Dáil committee is to be convened to examine the issue of assisted suicide, with calls that it should begin work before the Christmas break.

The issue was last examined by the Justice Committee, which looked at a Private Members Bill from left-wing TD Gino Kenny last year.

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Love—caritas—will always prove necessary, even in the most just society. There is no ordering of the State so just that it can eliminate the need for a service of love. Whoever wants to eliminate love is preparing to eliminate man as such. There will always be suffering which cries out for consolation and help. There will always be loneliness. There will always be situations of material need where help in the form of concrete love of neighbor is indispensable.

~ Pope Benedict XVI